Lee Petty

It dominated NASCAR from 1949 all the way to 1952, and it took the 1955 season championship.

Lee Petty, Richard Petty's father, he ran the Oldsmobile Rocket all the way through 1959, and the Olds was also very common in drag racing in the earliest years of that.

And I think the reason for that is it was such an early overhead pushrod engine that was available to the masses that it was kind of a big deal.

All right, so my historic victories and general legacy, I'm scoring it as a three, and I think the reason it's not higher than that is that it hasn't had the staying power, and people are not still hopping them up today.

Trivia time.

On your favorite public radio program, name the father-son duo with the most combined wins in NASCAR Cup series history, the father-son duo that together won more NASCAR races than any other father-son duo.

Only caveat here is like, yes, father and son each had to have won at least one race.

You can't say it's like, "Oh, so-and-so, yeah, and his son, like he drove somewhere." No, no, no, they both had to have won at least one race.

So I'll-

I had Dale and Dale Jr. [laughs]

I'll, I'll, I'll give you, I'll give you other g- It, it's not the Earnhardt, so thank you to all who emailed duesouth@wunc.org to answer the trivia question, which father-son duo has the most combined NASCAR Cup Series wins in history? But it's not the Earnhardts.

Um, we've got a correct answer, so I'm gonna see from the control room who sent that in.

And just immediately made a big splash.

He stepped on a lot of toes like David Pearson and Richard Petty and the big stars of the day.

And, uh, Didn't seem to care.

It was like, I'm Darrell Walter, but I'm here and, you know, do something about it.

I don't know that for sure, but I know I can read statistics.

And actually, I'll go ahead and mention the other one.

Tommy Irwin in 1960 absolutely blew Richard Petty's stats out of the water.

It's not even close.

When the dust cleared an hour and 52 minutes later, Paul Goldsmith and Smokey Unix 57 Ford nipped Jack Smith and Buck Baker driving Bud Moore 57 Black Widow Chevys, followed by Pete DiPaolo Fords, with Ralph Moody and Fireball Roberts rounding out the top five.

The return bout on October 27th saw a staggering 31-car field, with Buck Baker back in Bud's Chevy beating out teammates Speedy Thompson, Joe Weatherly, Jack Smith in the third Bud Moore Chevy, and Lee Petty in an Olds finishing fifth.

Owned back were factory boys Johnny Allen, Rex White, Marvin Panch, Curtis Turner, and Gwen Staley.

The finale was on May 11, 1958, and a 150-lap, 50-mile sprint won by Bob Welburn and a Julian Petty 57 Chevy over Lee Petty's Oldsmobile in second, with Junior Johnson third, Speedy Thompson fourth, and Doug Cox fifth.

If you've ever been to the ACC tournament or any event at the Greensboro Coliseum, you were there.

The track sat in the northwest corner of the parking lot near Coliseum Boulevard and Holbrook Streets, and that's another silent speedway of America.